Projector for sea-oiling shells



(No Model.)

A. H. WALKER.

PROJECTOR FOR SEAOILING SHELLS.

No. 381,732. Patented Apr. 24, 1888.

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ALBERT H. YVALKEB, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

PROJECTOR FOR SEA OILENG SHELLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,732, dated April24, 1888.

Application filed Fehruary 15, 1898. Serial No. 264.101. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. WALKER, of Hartford, Connecticut, haveinvented a new and useful Projector for 'Sea-Oiling Shells, of which thefollowing description and claim constitute the specification, and whichis illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings.

This projector is adapted to throw from a ship into the sea such asea-oiling projectile as that described and claimed in my application,No. 260,024, filed January 7, 1888, for Letters Patent of the UnitedStates of America thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view of the projector clasped in the righthand of a sailor and clasping the projectile between its forward ends.Fig. 2 is a view of the upper part of Fig. 1, showing the projectilepartly in section, so as to exhibit the manner in which it is heldbetween the forward ends of the projector. Fig. 3 is a cross section ofthe projector on the plane of the mutual axis of the two parts thereofand looking toward the projectile. Fig. 4 is a central vertical sectionof the projectile.

The letters A and B indicate the two levers which constitute theprincipal parts of the projector. Those lovers are respectively pr0-vided at their forward ends with the inwardlyprojecting prongs C and D,and their rear ends are made in the form of the rear ends of the twomembers of tailors shears, and they are pivoted together by the bolt Ewhere they cross each other midway of their lengths, and are securediii-position by the nut F and a corresponding head on the other end ofthe bolt. The strap G may be employed, if desired, to guard against thedanger of the projector slipping from the hand of the sailor and flyinginto the sea.

When the filled projectile of Fig. 3 is to be thrown into the sea, itisiinpaled between the prongs of the forward ends of thelevers A and B,as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Then the sailor grasps the rear ends of thelevers, as shown in Fig. 1, and swings his arm asif he were about tothrow a ball, and at the instant that his arm reaches its utmost stretchhe opens his hand, so as to separate the rear ends of the levers A andB, and also to separate the forward ends of those levers, and thus toextract the prongs C and D from the openings which they made in thedisks 35 and 39, respectively. Thus the projectile is hurled into thesea.

I do not herein claim the projectile which I describe and show, becauseI do describe and claim that projectile in my application, No. 260,024,filed January 7, 1888, for Letters Patent of the United States ofAmerica.

I claim as my invention- A projector for sea-oiling shells, consistingof the levers A and B, crossing each other midway of their lengths andpivoted together by the bolt E, and having their rear ends made in theform of the rear ends of the two members of tailors shears,respectively, and provided at their forward ends with theaxiallyopposite and inwardly-projecting prongs C and D, respectively,all substantially as described.

ALBERT H. VALE ER.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. PIERPONT, WM. E. SIMoNDs.

